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Ten years ago, if you’d handed me a crystal and told me it could change my life, I’d have laughed you out of the room. So how did I end up with rose quartz on my desk, citrine in my pocket and a pouch of stones getting me pulled aside at airport security on my way home from Tanzania?
This week I’m continuing my Guests & Gurus series, and I’m thrilled to welcome my very first male guest to The Joy Broadcast: Mart Tweedy, founder of Canny Crystals. Crystals were one of the very first doors I walked through when I followed my curiosity into the spiritual world, so this conversation feels like coming full circle.
Mart’s story is one of the most moving I’ve heard. A boy who grew up with no money but so much love. A mental health worker in the NHS, £30,000 in debt. A Tipping Point win of exactly the £3,500 he’d been visualising in the bath (seagull sounds and all). And then, at the very height of everything going right, the loss of his granddad, the man who raised him. From that grief came a £10 parcel of crystals, a new life, and a business named after his granddad’s Geordie saying: “Gan canny, son.”
Five years on, Canny Crystals has over 100,000 followers, a chart-topping spirituality podcast, 60,000 orders and counting, an academy, and Manifest, the North’s biggest manifestation event.
In this episode we talk about:
Airport security, crystals in bras, and the day Google autocorrected “crystals” to something very different in front of Spanish customs
Mart’s first experiment with manifestation after reading The Secret, and the Tipping Point win that followed
Visualising himself on the sofa with Alison Hammond, and how she turned up on her day off
Losing his granddad, the darkest months of his life, and the first five crystals that helped him through
How crystals actually work: energy, vibration, intention, and why talking to your crystals isn’t as mad as it sounds
The best crystals for overwhelm when your head is too full (amethyst and howlite)
Why “which crystal should I buy?” is like walking into Tesco and saying “I’m hungry”
Smart Mart, the AI version of Mart trained on everything he’s ever created
Using crystals with children, and the amethyst geode that finally got his newborn sleeping
Moldavite: the “scary” crystal, the viral TikTok, the 50+ Canny Crystals babies, and the story of Jacob, his Moldavite baby
How to start working with your very first crystal, today
Manifest 2027 and the dream of a spiritual Glastonbury (cows included)
Mart’s simple starter practice:
Pick one small tumble stone. Know what it’s for. Each morning, hold it, close your eyes, smile and say: “Come on then, show me how good today can get.” That’s it. Start small. Notice what shifts.
Crystals mentioned:
Rose quartz (self-worth and heart healing), citrine (joy and abundance), green aventurine (health and wellbeing), black tourmaline (protection), amethyst (calm and intuition), howlite (stress and anxiety), pyrite (money), moldavite (transformation), plus my airport pouch of obsidian, labradorite, selenite, moonstone and jasper.
Connect with Mart:
Canny Crystals: cannycrystals.co.uk (chat to Smart Mart via the black bubble, bottom right)
Instagram: @cannycrystals
Manifest 2027: 26 and 27 June 2027, Newcastle. Tickets at https://www.mani-fest.uk/
Connect with Ali:
Get your free copy of Ali’s Book CALM: Sign up to The Joy Brief, the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from, and receive Ali’s first book, CALM, free in your welcome email: https://www.alimortimer.com/newsletter
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A gentle note: this episode includes conversation about grief and suicide. If anything here brings up something difficult for you, please reach out to someone you trust, or call Samaritans free on 116 123, any time, day or night.
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Do you tarot?  Have you got an Oracle deck? or are you a full cynic like I once was?!  
Perhaps you pulled a card and felt it was speaking directly to you? Back in 2016, in the deepest, darkest depression of my life, I found myself on retreat here in Yorkshire, picking a card from the little deck on the entrance desk every single visit. And every single time, it felt like exactly what I needed to hear.
This is the second episode in my series on the spiritual practices that helped me find my way back to joy, and I am delighted to welcome Kate May, The Modern Day Mystic, to the Joy Broadcast.
Kate has been reading tarot professionally for around 20 years. Her story begins with free cards from a magazine, a teenage summer job printing astrology reports at the end of a pier, and a palm reader who told her she would marry twice and work in America. Thirty years later, she discovered that same palm reader was about to become her mother-in-law. Goosebumps!
Key takeaway: Take time out to reflect, but keep one eye open for the opportunity floating in on the wind. Step into your power, get seen, and remember there is still time to make the magic happen this year.
Whether you are a curious beginner, a cynic (like I was ten years ago!), or already have a deck on your bedside table, this episode is an invitation to reconnect with your intuition and feel good doing it. After all, that’s the aim of the game.
Connect with Kate May
Website & to book a personal reading: https://kate-may.co.uk/
Instagram: @katemaymoderndaymystic_
Also on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, and her books are available on Amazon (search Kate May Modern Day Mystic)
Get your free copy of Ali’s Book CALM: Sign up to The Joy Brief, the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from, and receive Ali’s first book, CALM, free in your welcome email: https://www.alimortimer.com/newsletter
Shop JOY here: if you would like more joy in your life, why not take a look around the JOY shop with a personal shopping experience with Ali : https://youtu.be/DcGAIEwpBD4
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Welcome to the very first episode of a brand new series on The Joy Broadcast!
After celebrating 100 episodes, I wanted to do something different. This series brings together a collective of incredible people whose work and modalities have helped me on my own journey back to joy. Manifestation. Visualisation. Energy work. Sound healing. All the things the corporate version of me would have rolled her eyes at a decade ago. Each episode, you’ll meet one of the teachers who showed up exactly when I needed them, and you’ll hear how their tools could help you too.
And who better to open the series than the woman who gave me one of the most powerful experiences of my life?
At Manifest in 2025, Victoria Jackson guided a room full of us through a visualisation that brought me to ugly, glorious tears. I saw the beach house. The curtains blowing in the wind. My husband surrounded by our grandchildren. A wall of photographs from a life well lived. It wasn’t a daydream. It felt like a memory of my future.
Victoria was once the biggest cynic. A menswear magazine editor travelling the world, meeting Vivienne Westwood and Tom Ford, invited to Downing Street, and deeply unhappy. Crying on the M62, hair falling out, heart racing. When a friend suggested The Secret, she thought it was absolute rubbish. Then something clicked. Gratitude. A pink feather in an envelope. £125, to the exact pound. And the morning she told her colleagues she’d manifested her way out of her job, the whole department was made redundant by lunchtime.
Today, Victoria is the founder of The Manifestation Collective, an author of three books, and a self-confessed “slow manifester”. Together we explore why detachment speeds things up, why you must become the person who can hold the magic rather than simply receive it, and how visualisation works as a dress rehearsal for who you’re becoming.
Cynic or believer, this one is for you.
In this episode we explore
Why gratitude is the foundation of all joy, and how it shifted everything on Victoria’s daily commute
The pink feather, the £125 and the redundancy: what rapid manifestation taught her about detachment
Being a “slow manifester” and the four year journey from Instagram story to speaking at Happy Place Festival
Why you need to become the person who holds the magic, the money and the love
The microwave generation: chasing the feeling rather than the thing
The biggest blocks to manifestation: fear of failure, worthiness and money that never feels safe to keep
Visualisation as dress rehearsal, and why athletes use it to win
Self-concept work for health and money, including the dream weight on the scales
Victoria’s Human Design as a 3/5 Manifestor and why she needed the science
Romanticising your life: the five star turndown service you can give yourself tonight
Connect with Victoria
The Manifestation Collective website
Instagram: @themanifestationcollective
The Manifestation Collective podcast
The Manifestation Collective Membership
Connect with Ali
Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
The Joy Brief weekly newsletter, quick links and weekly offers
Substack: Brilliant Women Breaking Rules
The Joy Shop with me!
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Welcome to episode 101, and what better way to celebrate than going back to Joy 101? In this short, sharp episode, Ali shares three of her favourite joy tools. These are the ones she reaches for herself and uses with her Brilliance clients and Joy Rebels whenever life delivers a plot twist, a sticky season, a power pivot, or a detour down the rabbit hole on the way to purpose.
Each one is a "rampage": a stream of consciousness you can speak out loud in the car, voice note on a dog walk, or scribble in your journal. Use them one at a time or all three together.
Rampage 1: The Gratitude Rampage (to lift your mood)
Ali opens up about how a gratitude practice, first given to her by a grief counsellor, carried her through some of the hardest moments of her life, and how even on the night before her mum died, she could still find something to be thankful for. She shares the gratitude insight from Rhonda Byrne's The Magic, Brené Brown's research showing that it's the gratitude practice that brings joy (not the other way round), and why saying thank you out loud tells the universe you're open to receiving more.
Rampage 2: The Shit-Shifting Rampage Release (when you feel heavy and stuck)
For when every door seems to close, it's all taking too long, and it simply isn't fair. Ali invites you to get your Marigolds on, let your inner toddler or teenager have their moment, and write (or shout) your unfiltered letter to the universe. Inspired by the stream-of-consciousness approach in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, this is about getting the heaviness out so it stops weighing you down.
Rampage 3: The Casting Spells Rampage (to vision your future)
If you can connect the dots looking back, why not cast them forward? Ali shares the story of how one chance seat in a university dining room led to a ski trip and, eventually, to James. She explains how to playfully imagine the many wild and wonderful routes your desires could arrive by, and why this lifts you into joy, the frequency of the super attractor.
Also in this episode:
Why you should absolutely get your hopes up, and how a client's rampage was followed by a mind-blowing breakthrough the very next day
The coach's challenge: write 50 ways you could receive the thing you want
Why grown women can handle a little disappointment, and how fearing it closes the door on everything else that's possible
Your invitation this week: Pick the rampage you need most right now and try it on your next drive or walk. Ali would love to hear how it goes.
This episode contains strong language and discusses baby loss and bereavement. Please look after yourself while listening.
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In this very special milestone episode of The Joy Broadcast, Ali shares the funny story of how she discovered she'd reached episode 100 (spoiler: Buzzsprout didn't tell her). It happened on a Monday afternoon when that familiar inner voice was loudly insisting she hadn't done enough, wasn't far enough along, and should be doing more.
Ali takes you inside her "Just On You" moment, the powerful reframe her mentor offered, and the simple look-back exercise that turned shame into pride. She also reveals how a voice that once felt like a stick to beat herself with became something far lighter and far more magical: her Joy Fairy, complete with bliss bubble and wand.
If you're an ambitious woman who always sees the gap between where you are and where you want to be, this one is for you.
In this episode:
Why Ali's "you haven't done enough" voice gets so loud, and how she now recognises it rather than letting it run the show
Using JOY (Just On You) to pause, ask how you're feeling, and decide what you need
The look-back exercise: listing everything you've done since this time last year across self-care, home, family, friends, career and adventures
Ali's own list, from getting two sons through A levels and a hundred-plus holiday bookings, to growing her Instagram community by 800%, writing her book  CALM, 60 Substack essays, speaking to over 600 people, opening The Joy Rebellion and walking alongside 17 brilliant women in private mentorship.
Why joy is the fuel, the frequency of peak performance and your competitive edge
The Joy Fairy question: one more sprinkle of joy, or "don't meddle with the joy magic"?
Two exercises to take away:
Look back to leap forward. Sit down and write out everything you've achieved since this time last year. Get the facts. You'll be amazed.
Swap the stick for a wand. When the "not enough" voice appears, recognise it as your superpower in disguise. Ask your inner 'Joy Fairy': is there a little more magic to sprinkle today, or is it time to let the joy do its thing?
Get your free copy of CALM: Sign up to The Joy Brief, the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from, and receive Ali's first book, CALM, free in your welcome email.
Share your wins: What have you achieved this year? Ali would love to hear. Send her a message or tag her on Instagram with your look-back list.
Thank you to every listener, every guest, and everyone who has shared, commented and helped the ripple of joy reach the millions and the masses. See you next week for Joy 101!
And if you would like more joy in your life, why not take a look around the JOY shop with a personal shopping experience:
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Love always
Ali xo
Please note: this episode contains some strong language.
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